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BOOK XV

UT when their flight had taken them past the trench
Band the set stakes, and many had fallen by the hands
of the Danaans, the Trojans made a halt on reaching their
chariots, routed and pale with fear. Jove now woke on the
crests of Ida, where he was lying with golden-throned Juno
by his side, and starting to his feet he saw the Trojans and
Achaeans, the one thrown into confusion, and the others
driving them pell-mell before them with King Neptune in
their midst. He saw Hector lying on the ground with his
comrades gathered round him, gasping for breath, wander-
ing in mind and vomiting blood, for it was not the feeblest
of the Achaeans who struck him.
The sire of gods and men had pity on him, and looked
fiercely on Juno. ‘I see, Juno,’ said he, ‘you mischief-making
trickster, that your cunning has stayed Hector from fight-
ing and has caused the rout of his host. I am in half a mind
to thrash you, in which case you will be the first to reap the
fruits of your scurvy knavery. Do you not remember how
once upon a time I had you hanged? I fastened two anvils
on to your feet, and bound your hands in a chain of gold
which none might break, and you hung in mid-air among
the clouds. All the gods in Olympus were in a fury, but they
could not reach you to set you free; when I caught any one
of them I gripped him and hurled him from the heavenly

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